Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 91

And all that he would ask in return was the three fern stems which she carried in her apron.

Who acts: leg, woman · What happens: ask, be, carry · To what, where: three fern stems, return, apron

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leg, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 ask	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ask	det:predet
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 ask	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ask	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 ask	aux
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 return	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stems	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stems	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stems	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 stems	nummod
12	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stems	compound
13	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ask	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 carried	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carried	nsubj
16	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stems	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 apron	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 apron	nmod:poss
19	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carried	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	would	leg			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the three fern stems	return	tree rules
3	carry	past	woman	the three fern stems	woman's apron	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in apron=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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